Introduction: I have an encouraging word for those who really care about the future of our nation, all fourteen of them. I think it would be fair to describe these people as having a serious case of the jumps, and they need a word of encouragement. And I speak in jest — I know there …
Spelunking Down Below
“He appeared to be the kind of man in whom the tag self-awareness had almost no place to attach itself. If self-deception were a form of spelunking, he came across as the kind of person who would have been lost in Carlsbad Caverns for more than a few years now.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 137
The Tuesdaytudinous Letters
Letter to the Editor: So, I just wanted to say, I read Ride, Sally, Ride over the weekend, and it was so, so good. Like really good. I read Flags Out Front a couple months ago, and have a ...
If Babylon Had Phones
“But, as Stephanie had guessed, there was plenty of other stuff on his phone, stuff that would be illegal even in Colorado as it had now become. We might even go so far as to say that he had stuff on his phone that would have been illegal in Belshazzar’s Babylon. So, as I say, he bolted from the room.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 132
Jitney Jezebels and “Ride, Sally, Ride”
Introduction: So my latest novel is now out and about. It is entitled Ride, Sally, Ride. And what I would like to do here, besides encouraging you to get five or six of them, is actually to embrace one of the criticisms that some have made about the book thus far. I am, of course, …
Yeah, Dwight
“Why did you molest me, then, Dwight?” She put as much English spin on her Dwight as she could. If Dwight were a ping-pong ball, he would have hit the table and then bounced sideways.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 130
Too On the Nose
That’s How It Seemed Anyway
“The next ten minutes staggered around the room a few times, and then sat down abruptly, drunk. After that, five more minutes crawled around for a while on its hands and knees, looking for the door.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 129
The Full Shudder
“An involuntary shudder started at Stephanie’s ankles, and raced to her neck and head.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 129
David French and the Train that Already Left the Station
Introduction: So David French has written on the Kyle Rittenhouse situation here. His central concern is that he wants Christians to do a better job respecting the social compact we have here in America, and is concerned that those Christians who have rallied to the support of Kyle Rittenhouse are failing in this important duty. …